Five US police officers charged with beating Black man to death
AFP :US authorities on Thursday charged five former police officers with murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, as the southern...
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Israel strikes as rockets fired from Gaza
Reuters :Palestinian group on Friday fired two rockets from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israel that were intercepted by missile defenses, and Israel then carried...
Myanmar junta sets out tough new rules for political parties
AFP :Myanmar’s junta on Friday gave political parties two months to re-register under a strict new electoral law written by the military, the latest sign...
Canada to send four combat-ready Leopard tanks to Ukraine
AFP :Canada said Thursday it will join the United States, Germany and other countries in supplying heavy tanks to Ukraine to fight off Russian forces,...
Imran Khan’s aide arrested for election criticism
AFP :An aide to former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested on Wednesday for criticizing election officials, police said, the latest case brought against...
California massacres heighten immigrants’ fears of US gun violence
AFP :America was supposed to be a place of safety for Jose Romero when he arrived some two years ago to work on a California...
Norway fund drops China, India firms over Myanmar weapons
AFP :Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, has excluded two companies from China and India for selling weapons to Myanmar, the Norwegian central bank...
California staggered by deadly back-to-back mass shootings
Reuters :Just two days after a gunman killed 11 people at a Los Angeles-area dance studio, seven more victims were shot dead in an agricultural...
Indian university bans screening of BBC series on PM Modi
AFP :A top Indian university has banned the screening of a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role during deadly 2002 sectarian riots, after...
Pakistan hit by nationwide power outage
AFP ; A massive power breakdown in Pakistan on Monday affected most of the country’s more than 220 million people, including in the mega cities...
California mass shooter dead, motive unclear
AFP : The gunman believed to have killed 10 people during Lunar New Year celebrations in California shot himself dead as police moved in to...
France, Germany seek to relaunch ties despite Ukraine strains
AFP : German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday sought to underline the importance of their nations’ postwar alliance, despite strains...